Australia – May 23
Time for the price of fuel to rise above politics
No silver bullet for fuel prices: Rudd
How petrol is putting Sydney under the pump
Energy Policy
Climate policy – May 22
Philip Sutton interview (author of Climate Code Red)
UK’s climate aid plans ‘undermine’ global deal
Sweden’s deputy PM grossly overstates sustainable development
CERES debate on designing climate policy
United Kingdom – May 22
Road policy oil assumptions attacked ($70 a barrel in 2020!)
Put UK airport expansion on hold, demands green group
Erosion of Britain’s peatlands
Renewables – May 22
House passes massive tax extensions for renewable energy
Bartlett: Congressional delays hobble renewable energy
Environment is secondary to private profits (renewables vs sequestration)
Inter-connected global grid for green energy,
Oil the news oil the time
It is going to become increasingly hard to avoid energy headlines in general, as the topic finally becomes, as some of us have predicted for a while, the defining one of our epoch.
The peak oil crisis: The Secretary of Transition
As gasoline prices go higher and higher and as the polls show voters more and more concerned about how they are going to fill their tanks, the Congress is starting to stir.
Peak oil acceptance on its way in financial markets
Financial markets had not reflected peak oil in crude oil forward prices. In the past week the long end of the curve has drifted up dramatically.
Can we say that the market at last believes in peak oil? This article suggests a quantitative way to answer the question.
Blaming speculators – May 21
Are commodity traders bidding up food, fuel prices?
Are pension funds fueling high oil?
Senate takes on oil, food speculators
Gambling with the futures (primer)
Oil jumps $10 in a day and Congress … wants to sue OPEC?
The current “boiling frog” price increases (ie, slowly and without a big shock) are unlikely to lead to shortages or rationing in the short term, because that’s not where the problem is – the big problem is with respect to future supplies.
United States – May 20
FT: US begins to break foreign oil addiction
America must face the harsh realities over oil
Robert Bryce: Delusions of energy independence
Why planning for $200 barrel oil is so important
With the oil price looking pretty settled above $126 a barrel, what does the UK Government estimate the future oil price to be? Clearly one would imagine that as the most responsible body in the land, charged with making long term decisions that affect us all, they would have their fingers on the pulse of this one. Unfortunately the official position is as insulting as it is pathetic.
Rudd’s solar misstep and Australian energy policy
Sun sets on Rudd’s climate change credibility
Rebate rules ‘disaster’ for solar power industry
Solar means-test is necessary: Swan
Australia’s need for renewable energy
